Dealing with your feelings and worries

Dementia Australia
Help sheet on Feelings

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement has information about understanding grief.

Australian Men’s Shed Association
The primary activity in a Men’s Shed is the provision of a safe, friendly and healing environment where men are able to work on meaningful projects at their own pace and time in the company of other men. It is a community-based, not-for-profit and non-commercial organisation.

Beyond Blue
Beyond Blue aims to achieve an Australian community that understands depression and anxiety, and empowers all Australians at any life stage to seek help. For advice and support via telephone call 1300 224 636. 

Caresearch
Caresearch is an online resource designed to help those needing relevant and trustworthy information and resources about palliative care. The website has been funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Health and Ageing.
Information on grief, bereavement and loss

Cancer Council Victoria
Information, links and tips on how to cope with carer feelings

Canteen
Now what? An online booklet for young people aged 12 – 24 years about grief and bereavement, what it looks like, how it feels and what is normal.

Dying Matters
Dying Matters is a coalition based in the UK which aims to change public knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours towards dying, death and bereavement.
Starting the conversation when someone close to you is dying

Good life, good death, good grief
Good life, good death, good grief is a Scottish-based alliance that promotes community involvement and raises public awareness in ways of dealing with death, dying and bereavement.
It has a useful brochure on Talking to Children About Dying – information to help you help children understand death.

Hope Bereavement Care
HOPE Bereavement Care is a Geelong community organisation that provides a confidential counselling service to any person who has experienced the sudden or unexpected death of an infant, child or young person under 18 years of age.
Call HOPE Bereavement Care on 03 4215 3358 during office hours
Or call their 24-hour telephone support service on 1800 240 400

Kids Helpline
Kids Helpline is a free, private and confidential, telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between 5 and 25.
Call Kids Helpline on 1800 551 800.

LifeCircle
LifeCircle provides support to the carers and families of people with a life-threatening illness.

• Hopeline® 1300 364 673 telephone service provides mentoring for carers and other telephone support.

Lifeline
Lifeline provides a telephone crisis support and suicide prevention service
You can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Palliative Care Victoria
Palliative Care Victoria is the peak body representing palliative care providers, consumers and their families and those with interest in palliative care in Victoria. They provide many resources and information on palliative care, symptom management and have useful information brochures for people living with a life-threatening illness and their families and carers.

Relationships Australia

Relationships Australia provides relationship support services to individuals, families and communities. They offer counselling, family dispute resolution (mediation), family and community support and education programs.
Call Relationships Australia on 1300 364 277
For further information visit their website.

QLife

(Queer-Specific Peer Support) – 1800 184 527 (3pm – midnight) – https://qlife.org.au/

Queerspace

(Low or no-cost confidential counselling services to the LGBTIQ+ community and their families in the Geelong and Greater Geelong region) - 9663 6733 - https://www.queerspace.org.au/

Wombat’s Wish
Wombat’s Wish is a community-based grief support for children in the Geelong region.